All Screen articles in 4 September 2006 – Page 4
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Korean-US co-production Never Forever wraps in NYC
New York-based Vox3 Films co-founder Andrew Fierberg and LeeJoon-Dong of Now Films have completed principal photography on Gina Kim'sromance Never Forever.Set in New York City, the US-Korean co-production follows theaffair between a Korean immigrant and a frustrated Caucasian housewife. Vera Farmiga, Korean star Ha Jung-Woo, and David McInnis head thecast ...
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Norway's Bawke wins top prize at Palm Springs ShortFest
Hisham Zaman's Norwegian entry Bawke won the 2006 Palm Springs InternationalFestival of Short Films & Short Film Market (ShortFest)'s Best of FestivalAward on Aug 29. In other jury awards, The Best Live Action Under 15 Minutes prizewent to Sophie Barthes' US festival favourite Happiness, while Jens Assur's Swedish picture TheLast ...
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Korean Screen Quota Action Alliance to hold Venice campaign
The Korean Screen QuotaAction Alliance has announced it is holding a campaign at the 63rd Venice FilmFestival, which started yesterday, to protest against the screen quotareduction.Director Ryoo Seung-wan,whose The City Of Violence isscreening out-of-competition at the festival, will spearhead the campaign witha solo protest on Sep 1, with other protests ...
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The Black Dahlia
Lee Marshall in VeniceDir: Brian De Palma. US.2006. 121mins.A stylish, steamy genre exercise with a solid castand a cluttered storyline, The BlackDahlia matches director Brian De Palma with hard-boiled LA crime writerJames Ellroy with entertaining, if not whollysatisfying, results.Working closely withcinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond,set designer Dante Ferretti and composer Mark Isham, ...
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Greenaway to start Nightwatching shoot next week
Peter Greenaway'sNightwatching,about Rembrandt's most famous painting, will start shooting in location in Poland and Wales from Sept 4. Martin Freeman, known forhis roles in The Office and The Hitchhiker's Guide ToThe Galaxy, will play Rembrandt, and the supporting cast includesEva Birthistle, Jodhi May,Emily Holmes and Natalie Press. The film follows ...
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Bosnia puts forward Grbavica for foreign-language Oscar
Jasmila Zbanic's GoldenBear-winning feature debut Grbavica has been selected by Bosnia and Herzegovina as its official submission for the Foreign LanguageFilm category at the forthcoming Academy Awards.The co-production between Austria's coop99 Filmproduktion, Zbanic's own company Deblokada Filmproduction, Germany's Noirfilm Filmproduktion,and Croatia's Jadran Film has alreadybeen sold to more than 45 ...
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Pan Europeenne Edition renamed Wild Bunch Distribution
The distribution arm of French sales and financing outfit Wild Bunch,Pan Europeenne Edition, has been re-baptized Wild BunchDistribution the company announced.Wild Bunch took an interest in Pan Europeenne, adistribution and production house run by Philippe Godeau, in 2004.Executives at the newly christened Wild Bunch Distribution remain inplace with the company ...
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Match Factory takes on Half Moon and Takva
Germansales company The Match Factory will handle international sales onKurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi'slatest feature Half Moon and Turkishdirector Ozer Kiziltan's Takva - A Man's Fear Of God which are bothhaving their world premieres at the forthcoming Toronto International FilmFestival. Ghobadi's film, which is produced by his own companyMIJ Films with ...
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Rockets Redglare! documentary film-maker dies
Film-makerLuis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, died Aug 14 after amotorcycle accident in New York State.Hedirected the 2003 documentary Rockets Redglare!, which featuredinterviews with actor, comedian and downtown New York icon Redglare himself (aka Michael Morra) as well aswith collaborators including Jim Jarmusch, MattDillon, Steve Buscemi and Willem Dafoe. The ...
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European Film Promotion continues Toronto initiatives
European Film Promotion,supported from the European Union's MEDIA Programme, will for the second yearoversee the Film Sales Support initiative at the Toronto International FilmFestival.At Toronto (Sept 7-16), EFP will be part of the expandedEuropean group at the Festival's Sales and Industry Office in the Sutton PlaceHotel. The Film Sales Supportinitiative ...
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Weinsteins buy into independent US TV channel Ovation
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has take it s first step into cable televisionas part of a consortium of private investors that has bought the independentcable channel Ovation, The Arts Network.Television executives Ken Solomon will oversee the network's relaunchas chairman, alongside chief executive officer Charles Segars, chief operatingofficer Ron Garfield, and ...
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London's Frieze Art Fair comissions five short films
The annual London-based FriezeArt Fair's Frieze Projects will this year include commissioned films from Dutchartist Manon de Boer, Mexican artist Miguel Calderon,London-based Bonnie Camplin,Glasgow-based Phil Collins and Thai film-maker ApichatpongWeerasethakul. The Artists Cinema,presented in partnership with LUX, willscreen the films as before they tour UK cinemas to show before features. ...
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Montreal's FNC gets shot in the arm from Langlois
Montreal's Festival duNouveau Cinema has signed a ten-year partnership with software magnate DanielLanglois that will cement the festival's place within Langlois' Ex-Centrismedia centre in the city's downtown. Langlois is also forgivingthe FNC's long-term debt and committing to provide a long-term venue forCanada's oldest film festival. The 35th edition of the ...
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Appleton leaves W&A for LA law firm Sheppard Mullin
Former Writers and Artists Agency general counsel Dina Appletonhas joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's entertainment media and communicationspractice group.Appleton has extensive experience in entertainment transactions includingfilm and television development, production, financing and distribution.She is a co-author of Hollywood Dealmaking: Negotiating Talent Agreementsand teaches an annual entertainment deal making class ...
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UK Post announces more Conch nominees
Industrygroup UK Post has announced the remaining shortlists for its inaugural audioawards The Conch. Judges areDavid Brady of Soho Editors, Delissa Needham ofUnicorn, Nick Godwin of WAGtv, Paul Mac of AudioMedia Magazine, Ray Gillan of Warner Bros, John Andrews of InstituteBroadcast Sound, Ben Nemes of Scrub, Jules MacDonald,Neil Draper of ...
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First wave of Blu-ray releases announced in Japan
Sony, Matsushita and majorhome video companies have announced that consumer-priced Blu-ray disc playersand 75 movie titles will be released in Japan this November.The discs will sell at arange of prices under $42.78 (Y5,000) which is slightly more than standard DVDreleases. The initial releases coincide with Sony's debut of the PlayStation ...
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Burstyn takes the lead in Skogland's Stone Angel
Writer-director KariSkogland has begun principal photography on her feature The Stone Angel with Academy Award-winner Ellen Burstyn in the lead.Based on the novel by thelate Margaret Laurence -- a staple of modern Canadian literature - thefilm will be distributed in Canada by Odeon Films with world sales through IACFilm/Sequence Film. ...
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Goldwyn, Roadside to handle US on Amazing Grace
Samuel Goldwyn Films and Roadside Attractions will jointlydistribute the Toronto International Film Festival's closing night film AmazingGrace in the US.The Bristol Bay Productions' feature is directed by Michael Aptedand stars Ioan Gruffudd as the anti-slavery champion William Wilberforce.The cast includes Romola Garai, Rufus Sewell, BenedictCumberbatch, Youssou N'Dour, Ciaran Hinds, Michael ...
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ASC sets annual awards for Feb 18, 2007
The 21st Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awardsfor Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography will take place on Feb 18 2007 inLos Angeles.'Our members established this annual celebration in 1986 forthe purpose of recognising and inspiring the pursuit of excellence in the artand craft of cinematography,' ASC chairman of the ASC's ...
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Gale Force 10 to premiere on eve of Flanders festival
Gale Force 10, the new Flemish film by Hans Herbots, willhave its world premiere on October 6 on the eve of the Flanders InternationalFilm Festival in Ghent.Gale Force 10 is the official opening film of the Festival Previews section. The festivalwill also host an official competition opening on Oct 11, ...